Motley Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Motley
Motley Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Motley quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
— John Lothrop Motley
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
— Constance Baker Motley
Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.
— Peter Hedges
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
— Constance Baker Motley
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
— Constance Baker Motley
When did one man ever civilize a people?
— John Lothrop Motley
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
— Constance Baker Motley
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
— John Lothrop Motley
The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
— John Lothrop Motley
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
— Constance Baker Motley
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
— Constance Baker Motley
To have faith in God, you must also have faith in His timing....
— Brandi N. Jefferson-Motley
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
— John Lothrop Motley
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
— John Lothrop Motley
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
— John Lothrop Motley
Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
— John Lothrop Motley
All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.
— George R R Martin
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
— John Lothrop Motley
I wear not motley in my brain.
— William Shakespeare
We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon
— Sarah MacLean
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
— John Lothrop Motley
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
— Constance Baker Motley
A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
— John Lothrop Motley
I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
— Constance Baker Motley
On Ecstasy, Joan Rivers looks like Pamela Anderson, so imagine what Pamela Anderson looked like.
— Tommy Lee
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
— Constance Baker Motley
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
— John Lothrop Motley
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
— Constance Baker Motley
Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.
— Constance Baker Motley
Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
— Constance Baker Motley
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
— John Lothrop Motley
When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.
— Constance Baker Motley
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
— Constance Baker Motley
Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.
— Marion Motley
Local self-government ... is the life-blood of liberty.
— John Lothrop Motley
Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.
— Nina Garcia
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
— Constance Baker Motley
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
— John Lothrop Motley
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
— Constance Baker Motley
Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.
— William Shakespeare
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
— Constance Baker Motley
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
— John Lothrop Motley
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
— Constance Baker Motley
Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
— Constance Baker Motley
Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.
— Constance Baker Motley
One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.
— James Hetfield
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
— Constance Baker Motley
I wear not motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.
— William Shakespeare
What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
— Nikki Sixx
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
— Constance Baker Motley
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
— Constance Baker Motley
The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
— Catherynne M Valente
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
— John Lothrop Motley
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
— Constance Baker Motley
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
— John Lothrop Motley
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
— Constance Baker Motley
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
— John Lothrop Motley
I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.
— Stevie Nicks
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
— Constance Baker Motley
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
— Constance Baker Motley
If I don't get you now, I'll get you later.
— Marion Motley
Above the youth's inspired and flashing eyes/I see the motley, mocking fool's-cap rise.
— Thomas Hardy
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
— Constance Baker Motley
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
— Constance Baker Motley
How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
— Constance Baker Motley
For me the motley and the bauble, yea,Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith,
The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath! — Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
— John Lothrop Motley
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
— John Lothrop Motley
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
— John Lothrop Motley
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
— Constance Baker Motley
When it comes to putting together a new show, we always push the envelope, and that's part of Motley Crue's legacy.
— Nikki Sixx
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
— Constance Baker Motley
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
— Constance Baker Motley
Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
— John Lothrop Motley
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
— Constance Baker Motley
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
— John Lothrop Motley
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
— Constance Baker Motley
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
— John Lothrop Motley
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
— John Lothrop Motley
Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.
— Mark Hoppus
You might as well learn about sex from Motley Crue than your parents because it's a lot more interesting.
— Nikki Sixx
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
— Constance Baker Motley
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
— Constance Baker Motley
Motley's the only wear.
— William Shakespeare
In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.
— Constance Baker Motley
The thing is that I've known the guys from Motley Crue longer than just about everybody.
— Nikki Sixx
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
— John Lothrop Motley
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
— Constance Baker Motley